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How to scan documents and photos using Google Drive application for Android devices

Follow the steps below to scan a document using Google Drive from mobile phones.

Google every day looking for ways of how surprising or rather give us some tools, in this case it has done with the scanner Google Drive can be considered very useful because we have a scanner in your pockets all the time to when needed.

google drive scanner add to mobile devices

We have seen on our blog and how to set up printing from Android devices using Google Cloud Print, print from a file made in Google Drive and even print from your Android device — in this case the Samsung Galaxy S4 — including printing tools related Google and its cloud better known as Google Drive documents.Now I've upgraded my app Drive in the cell that I have, and I see the possibility of sharing this tool with you, I thought it was the newest and was the first to know, after investigating've noticed is available in the latest update 09/12/2013 from day even with the picture above — certainly seems taken from a cell Nexus "of course" — the case is how amazing is this tool for Google Drive application.

With this you can scan a document, whether photos, text or even a sign on the streets and convert formats supported by the word processor in the clouds Drive.

scanned file to Google Drive using the camera

Scan files with this application, which immediately saved in Google Drive documents, ready for printing, sharing or just keep if he wants.

It will not be a problem that a document is not of the same size to the glass of our printer or scanner, when we take the photo "scanner" we may modify or select the sizes that the finished document will, using the tools provided by the scanner Drive.

Google Drive document scanning

Automatically when you click to select the document, this will select any signal square appears — that is where you recognize this document — we can modify the automatic selection and then pressing the symbol accept that shown in part lower right.

Another particularity of this tool is that it allows different types of scanner, is about the same as a conventional scanner or rather the most used. For example we can make Document Scanner black / white and full-color scanner. see image below...

color document scanning

Finally to save the file, you can select to do so by the various methods available, and supported with Google Drive — even a text document using the method of text recognition patented by Google — when it is stored in Google Drive will be easy to manipulate and turn into any kind of document.

When you save the scanned file you can view it anytime in your Google Drive account, only just go, even before saving can rename or to more easily organize documents by creation date.